Sociology and anthropology Books

Book SynopsisImagine a world where humanity was not destined to cause harm to the natural world, where win-win scenarios-people and nature thriving together-are possible. No doubt contemporary western society is steeped in the legacy of white supremacy and colonialism, and as a result, many people have come to believe that humanity is fundamentally flawed, that the story of our species is destined to be nasty, brutish, and short. But what if this narrative could be dismantled?In Finding Our Niche, Philip A. Loring does just that. He explores the tragedies of Western society and offers examples and analyses that can guide us in reconciling our damaging settler-colonial histories and tremendous environmental missteps in favor of a more sustainable and just vision for the future.Drawing from numerous cases around the world, from cattle ranchers on the Burren in Ireland, to clam gardeners in British Columbia and protectors of an accidental wetland in northwest Mexico, Loring brings the reader through a difficult journey of reconciliation, a journey that leads to a more optimistic understanding of human nature and the prospects for our future, where people and nature thrive together. Interwoven are Loring's personal struggles to reconcile his identity as a white settler living and working on stolen Indigenous lands.In a moment when our world is hanging in the balance, Finding Our Niche is a hopeful exploration of humanity's place in the natural world, one that focuses on how we can heal and reconcile our unique human ecologies to achieve more sustainable and just societies.

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Book Synopsis The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and national organizations in the field of aging. Drawing on an extensive collection of international case studies, this volume provides an introduction to the movement. The contributors – both researchers and practitioners – touch on a number of current tensions and issues in the movement and offer a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development. The book concludes with a call for a radical transformation of a medical and lifestyle model of aging into a relational model of health and social/individual wellbeing.Trade Review “Knowledgeably compiled and deftly edited by Philip B. Stafford [this volume] is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended as a core addition to community, college, and university library Gerontology Social Sciences and in Public Policy collections, as well as Social Services & Welfare supplemental curriculum studies lists.” • Midwest Book Review “[this volume] provides an excellent critical appraisal of the challenges, successes, theoretical models and their practical applicability in the building of age-friendly communities. Importantly, this volume suggests that the Age-Friendly Movement must consider the needs of populations at large, or risks further segmentation and isolation of various age-groups…The authors invite us to move away from the individual and the local as the smallest unit of health, to take into account the complex social conditions affecting a globalized world.” • Anthropology & Aging “In short, the strength of this book is that it reinforces and extends the current discussion of key, age-friendly issues, and brings attention to a new array of communities and their distinctive efforts. This book would be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and community leaders who want to broaden their view of developments in the movement to develop age-friendly communities. The loud message gained from this book is that assessing the needs of aging populations and designing age-friendly community responses require vastly different approaches and tools, depending on the community. At the same time, the book makes clear that such efforts are possible and that much can be learned from the experiences of these communities.” • The Gerontologist “An important contribution to the literature… [it] attempts to broaden the theories of gerontology to consider the role of community and overcome the limitations of a purely medical model of aging.” • Laura M. Keyes, University of North TexasTable of Contents List of Illustrations and Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Theorizing and Practicing Age-friendly Development Philip B. Stafford PART I: EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITY Chapter 1. Creating Age-friendly Communities in Urban Environments: Research Issues and Policy Recommendations Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson Chapter 2. Training Advocates to Undertake Livable Community Initiatives: A Pilot Program Sharon A. Baggett Chapter 3. Public Places, Community, and the Physical and Mental Health of Children and Elders Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard Chapter 4. The Intersection between Sustainable and Age-friendly Development Alan DeLaTorre PART II: AGE-FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS Chapter 5. Accessibility, Participation, Networking: The Impact of a Local Network on the Environment and the Life Relationship of Older People Birgit Wolter Chapter 6. Assessing the Aging-Friendliness of Two New York City Neighborhoods: A Case Study Mia R. Oberlink and Barbara S. Davis PART III: COLLABORATION ACROSS GENERATIONS Chapter 7. Communities for All Ages: Reinforcing and Reimagining the Social Compact Corita Brown and Nancy Henkin Chapter 8. Ibasho Café: Giving Elders a Role to Play in Making Communities More Resilient Emi Kiyota Chapter 9. Youth and Older Persons as Agents for Change: Creating an Inclusive and Age-Friendly Society for All Arthur Namara and Kristin Bodiford PART IV: RURAL AGING Chapter 10. Retrofitting Small Towns: How Aging in Place Could Transform Rural America Zachary Benedict Chapter 11. Creating an Age-Friendly Community in a Depopulated Town in Japan: A Search for Resilient Ways to Cherish New Commons as Local Cultural Resources Nanami Suzuki PART V: BEING WELL ENOUGH IN OLD AGE Chapter 12. Relational Well-Being and Age-Friendly Cities Marian Barnes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the words of Cornel West, Raymond Williams was 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals'. A figure of international importance in the fields of cultural criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied throughout his life with the meaning and significance of his Welsh identity. Who Speaks for Wales? was the first collection of Raymond Williams's writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. Published in 2003, it appeared in the early years of Welsh political devolution and offered a historical and theoretical basis for thinking across the divisions of nationalism and socialism in Welsh thought. This edition, appearing in the centenary of Williams's birth, appears at a very different moment in which - after the Brexit referendum of 2016 - Raymond Williams's 'Welsh-European' vision seems to have been soundly rejected and is now a reminder of what might have been. This new edition includes material that was not included in the first edition, with a new afterword in which the editor argues that Williams continues to speak to our moment. Daniel G. Williams's new edition further underlines the ways in which Raymond Williams's engagement with Welsh issues makes a significant contribution to contemporary international debates on nationalism, class and ethnicity. Who Speaks for Wales? remains essential reading for everyone interested in questions of nationhood and identity in Britain and beyond.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Return of the Native CULTURE 1. Who Speaks for Wales? 2. Welsh Culture 3. The Arts in Wales 4. Wales and England 5. Community 6. West of Offa's Dyke HISTORY 1. The Social Significance of 1926 2. Boyhood 3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three Reviews The Black Domain Putting the Welsh in their Place The Shadow of the Dragon 4. Remaking Welsh History 5. For Britain, see Wales 6. Black Mountains LITERATURE 1. Dylan Thomas's Play for Voices 2. Marxism, Poetry, Wales 3. The Welsh Industrial Novel 4. The Welsh Trilogy and The Volunteers 5. Freedom and a Lack of Confidence 6. The Tenses of Imagination 7. Region and Class in the Novel 8. Working-Class, Proletarian, Socialist: Problems in Some Welsh Novels 9. A Welsh Companion 10. All Things Betray Thee 11. People of the Black Mountains POLITICS 1. The Importance of Community 2. Are We Becoming More Divided? 3. The Culture of Nations 4. Decentralism and the Politics of Place 5. The Practice of Possibility Afterword to the Centenary Edition Index

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Book SynopsisThe institution of sport has pervasive roots that are steeped in patriarchy. Despite this tradition, sport is at the forefront in making us aware of personal and social issues in global societies. However, sociological attention to family and sport is long overdue and sorely needed. Providing timely knowledge and long-awaited insights into pressing issues, this volume of Research in the Sociology of Sport establishes family and sport as a clearly identified field of study within sociology. Focusing on how families participate in sport in global societies where traditional norms are rapidly evolving, this edited collection presents unique contributions to an under researched area of sociological inquiry. Offering a wide range of perspectives and a multidisciplinary approach, contributors provide applicable solutions to this sociological oversight, and nuanced scholarship that invites future consideration. Divided into three major sections, chapters explore traditional values that are actively challenged by both children and adults, examine the effects of cultural shifts on family relationships, and assess the patriarchal structure of sport participation in global societies. Highlighting the microlevel of the family to grapple with contemporary social issues at the macrolevel of society, Family and Sport: Notable Contributions to Sociology charts new territory to advance a valuable understanding of family and sport issues.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Steven M. Ortiz PART I. Family-Sport Socialization Chapter 1. The Great Sport Myth: Children’s Non-elite Sport in New Zealand; Aleksandra Stojanovska, Roslyn Kerr, and Greg Ryan Chapter 2. Exploring Gendered Stereotypes: Sports Participation and Adolescent Closeness to Mothers; Tom R. Leppard and Mikaela J. Dufur PART II. Sport as Social Control Chapter 3. Parenting in School-based Sailing Programs: Gender and Social Class Reproduction; Anne Schmitt and Matthew Atencio Chapter 4. Women and Sports in Pakistan: Family Perpetuation of the Hymen Rupture Stigma; Umer Hussain Chapter 5. Latina Teens and Sports Participation: Moving Beyond Gendered Cultural Explanations; Vera Lopez PART III. Work-Family Challenges Chapter 6. Footballer Wives: Communication and Coping at Home in Absence of Spouse; Chuka Onwumechili and Unwana Samuel Akpan Chapter 7. Iron Moms: Toward an Endurance Sport Identity; Diana Tracy Cohen Chapter 8. Jogging Toward Responsibility: Pregnant and Parenting Elite Distance Runners Need Support; Francine Darroch, Sydney Smith, Audrey Giles, and Heather Hillsburg Conclusion; Steven M. Ortiz

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Book SynopsisThe Empire of Civil Society rejects outright the goal of theorising geopolitical systems in isolation from wider social structures. In a series of case studies - including Classical Greece, Renaissance Italy and the Portuguese and Spanish empires - Justin Rosenberg shows how his historical-materialist analysis is a surer guide to understanding geopolitical systems than the supposedly timeless verities of realism. Rosenberg demonstrates that the distinctive properties of the sovereign-state system are best understood as corresponding to the framework of capitalist society. In this light, realism emerges as incapable of explaining what it has always insisted is the central feature of the interstate order - the balance of power.Winner of the 1994 Deutscher Memorial Prize

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Book SynopsisEver since civilised society began, we have felt the need to classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more efficient, and help give the leaders of any organisation a sense of confidence that they have the right people focusing on the right tasks. But it can also be catastrophic, leading to tunnel vision and tribalism. Most importantly it can create a structural fog, with the full picture of where an organisation is heading hidden from view. It is incredibly widespread: the chances are these 'silos' are rife in any organisation or profession, whether your business, or your local school or hospital.Across industries and cultures, as this brilliant and penetrating book shows, silos have the power to collapse companies and destabilise financial markets, yet they still dominate the workplace. They blind and confuse us, often making modern institutions act in risky, silly and damaging ways.Gillian Tett has spent years covering financial markets and business, but she's also a trained anthropologist, having completed a doctorate at Cambridge University and conducted field work in Tibet and Tajikistan. She's no stranger to questioning the assumptions and practices of a culture. Those in question - financial trading desks, urban police forces, surgical teams within medical clinics, software debuggers and consumer product engineers - have practices and rituals as ordered and intricate as those of any far-flung tribe.In The Silo Effect, she uses an anthropological lens to explore how individuals, teams and whole organisations often work in silos of thought, process and product. With examples drawn from a range of fascinating areas - the New York Fire Department and Facebook to the Bank of England and Sony - these narratives illustrate not just how foolishly people can behave when they are mastered by silos but also how the brightest institutions and individuals can master them. The Silo Effect is a sharp, visionary and inspiring work with the insight, prescriptions and power to remove our organisational blinders and transform the way we think for the better.Trade ReviewEngagingly written, this is also a history of our need to classify the world and how that can be our downfall -- Hazel Davis * The Times *Here's a piece of advice: read The Silo Effect, if only because your boss may already be immersed in Gillian Tett's latest study on how organisations can go badly awry. You would not want to be caught unawares, now, would you? Also, you might be missing something rather brilliant. Yes, honestly . . . Tett's anthropological approach adds academic rigour and richness' -- Anne Ashworth * The Times *A profound idea, richly analyzed * Wall Street Journal (Europe) *Highly intelligent, enjoyable and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies. It is also genuinely important . . . her prescription for curing the pathological silo-isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing -- Felix Martin * Financial Times *This is not just a business book * The Economist *Gillian Tett is a gifted, innovative and informative writer . . . Tett writes beautifully and her book is full of insights. Those who do not know her work should make up for the oversight -- Vince Cable * New Statesman *Supremely wise -- Rohan Silva * Evening Standard *Useful for work - and for life -- Anne Ashworth * The Times *

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Book SynopsisIn this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including how witchcraft has been used to justify misfortune, and debunk old-fashioned ideas about “race” based upon the latest genetic research. They even share what our bathroom tells us about our concept of the body – and ourselves. From our evolutionary ancestors, through our rites of passage, to our responses to globalization, Hendry and Underdown provide the essential first step to understanding the world as an anthropologist would – in all its diversity and commonality.Trade Review-- A wonderfully accessible introduction, with a clear focus on the needs of students first coming to the field. Dr Faye Healey-Clough Anthropology lecturer, Gloucestershire College, UK

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Book SynopsisIn this moving and authoritative work which combines dedicated research and interviews with victims of childhood abuse and neglect, psychotherapist Linda Sanford passionately refutes the received wisdom that such people are trapped in a vicious circle of abuse and will probably become perpetrators of violence themselves.In more than seventeen years of working with victims and survivors, she discovered that this simplistic formula is far from true. Most survivors, in her experience, break free from the patterns of victimization and abuse and go on to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. And the more than twenty interviewed in depth by Sanford provide vivid proof that full recovery is possible. As they discuss key issues, such as self-image, intimacy, work and spirituality, we come to see what enables them, and countless others like them, to triumph over trauma and become not only strong, but often strongest where they've been most injured- strong at the broken places.Trade ReviewLinda Sanford has written a book that has the power to change your life. * Claudia Black *

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Book SynopsisRichard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical and psychic space: the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice, where state-imposed outsiderdom was translated into a rich community identity; and nineteenth-century Paris, a magnet for political exiles, where the experience of displacement seeped into the city's culture at large.

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Book SynopsisThe continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighbouring Chad. Building on twenty years of research in the region, Andrea Behrends tracks the repercussions of this conflict—sometimes referred to as the ‘first genocide of the twenty-first century’—for those living through it: those who stayed put, those who fled from rural areas to towns, those who moved to refugee camps, and those who fought. Telling the story of everyday survival on the Chad–Sudan border, an area central to state politics in the larger region, her account sheds light on how people create belonging, exchange knowledge, develop new practices and build futures in the face of extreme uncertainty. Departing from the focus on large-scale humanitarian and military interventions associated with ‘states of emergency’, Behrends highlights the forms of cooperation and mutual knowledge production that emerge on the ground in these lifeworlds in crisis. She combines meticulous ethnographic description with theoretically grounded arguments to offer a pioneering study of how individuals have anticipated, survived and adapted to recurring crises and war in one of the world’s most economically marginalised regions.Trade Review'This scholarly book discusses the Chadian crisis, exploring topics such as war, security, displacement and mineral resources. With intelligence and empathy, Andrea Behrends offers us a vision of what it is to live in a world in crisis.' -- Fatou Sow, Professor of Sociology, Cheikh Anta Diop University'"Lifeworlds in Crisis" reveals the lives of people in refugee camps in Sudan and Chad through the objective, informed eye of an anthropologist. A masterly book that deconstructs the myths of humanitarian interventions in Africa.' -- Babacar Fall, Professor of History, Cheikh Anta Diop University'While most refugee scholars study those who left, Behrends listens to those who stay. This book offers a unique window into a world that is constantly threatened by war—a magnificent analysis of lifeworlds at the lower end of global capitalist hierarchies.' -- Joël Glasman, Professor in African History, University of Bayreuth'As the regions that Behrends scrutinises in this book are once again in turmoil, the fate of thousands of people driven from their homes at stake, from a Chadian perspective, this is poignantly topical.' -- Remadji Hoinathy, anthropologist and researcher, Institute for Security Studies

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Book SynopsisIn this pioneering work, Paul Abramson and Ronald Inglehart show that the gradual shift from Materialist values (such as the desire for economic and physical security) to Post-materialist values (such as the desire for freedom, self-expression, and the quality of life) is in all likelihood a global phenomenon.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Farmer] offers an anthology of 19 speeches on global health initiatives delivered between 2001 and 2012. . . .[from which ] readers will emerge with a heightened sense of the responsibilities and sacrifices required of future public servants." * Publishers Weekly *"...[To Repair the World] does not disappoint." * Los Angeles Review of Books *""With humor and passion, medical anthropologist Paul Farmer advocates a cure for society and the planet." * Nature *"The publication of this book is timely. It would make a perfect gift for a medical or biology graduate, but it would be inspiring to anyone who reads it. His speeches make one feel empowered ― to make a difference, to contribute to health policy, to accompany another who is struggling. In the speeches collected in To Repair the World, Dr. Farmer teaches us crucial lessons that we must all learn from, as scientists, as doctors, and as human beings." * Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword by President Bill Clinton Introduction by Jonathan Weigel Part I: Reimagining Equity General Anesthesia for the (Young Doctor’s) Soul? Brown Medical School, Commencement 2001 Epiphany, Metanoia, Praxis: Turning Road Angst into Hope—and Action Boston College, Commencement 2005 Three Stories, Three Paradigms, and a Critique of Social Entrepreneurship Skoll World Forum, Oxford University 2008 The Story of the Inhaler College of the Holy Cross, Commencement 2012 Countering Failures of Imagination Northwestern University, Commencement 2012 Part II: The Future of Medicine and the Big Picture If You Take the Red Pill: Reflections on the Future of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Class Day 2003 Medicine as a Vocation University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2004 Haiti After the Earthquake Harvard Medical School, Talks@Twelve Speaker Series 2010 The Tetanus Speech University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2010 Part III: Health, Human Rights, and Unnatural Disasters Global Health Equity and the Missing Weapons of Mass Salvation Harvard School of Public Health, Commencement 2004 Making Public Health Matter Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Commencement 2006 Unnatural Disasters and the Right to Health Care Tulane School of Medicine, Commencement 2008 Exploring the Adjacent Possible Georgetown University, Commencement 2011 Part IV: Service, Solidarity, Social Justice Who Stands Fast? Union Theological Seminary, Union Medal Acceptance Speech 2006 Courage and Compassion in the Time of Guantánamo Emory University, Commencement 2007 Spirituality and Justice All Saints Parish (Brookline, MA), Spirituality and Justice Award Acceptance Speech 2008 Making Hope and History Rhyme Princeton University, Commencement 2008 The Drum Major Instinct Boston University, Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration 2009 Accompaniment as Policy Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Commencement 2011 Notes Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisPolitical theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which these ideals are achieved. Political scientists keep institutions in view but deploy a meager set of value-conceptions in analyzing them. A more political political theory is needed to address this gap, Jeremy Waldron argues.Trade ReviewThe problem with revolutionary politics, in short, is that it tends to be naïve about political institutions. I can recommend no better corrective than liberal political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, and no better introduction to his thinking than his recently published collection of essays, Political Political Theory… To read Waldron is to reawaken ideas that so shape our world that they typically only live in the background of political theory and debate. It is to survey the pantheon of constitutional liberalism—Locke, Montesquieu, Condorcet, Madison, Kant, Mill, et al.—to step into their shoes and think hard about bicameralism, bills of rights, and judicial review, and appreciate the enormity of their intellectual and real-world achievements. -- David V. Johnson * Dissent *This is a brilliant book. It will excite readers and spark a revival of constitutional concerns that people might once have believed had been consigned to the history of ideas. -- Marc Stears, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe""Bernstein uses history as well as the contemporary landscape to riase questions about the chaging status of the category "human" in increasingly medically engineered bodies. In wonderfully thought-provoking passages, she muses over the relationships between body and mind, biology and technology to rethink, enlarge and playfully undermine the understanding of life itself."---Kate Brown, Times Literary Supplement"A magic dwells. . . By holding these different viewpoints up against each other, [and] Bernstein shows us just how intricate the question of what makes us human really is."---Justine Buck Quijada, Politics, Religion, & Ideology

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Book SynopsisTells the weird and chilling true story of Dr John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on the one hand, and, on the other, by the increased exploitation of certain resources that, while not entirely new, have taken on unprecedented importance. It is this new form of exploitation that has given rise to what they call the ‘enrichment economy’. The enrichment economy is based less on the production of new objects and more on the enrichment of things and places that already exist. It has grown out of a combination of many different activities and phenomena, all of which involve, in their varying ways, the exploitation of the past. The enrichment economy draws upon the trade in things that are intended above all for the wealthy, thus providing a supplementary source of enrichment for the wealthy people who deal in these things and exacerbating income inequality. As opportunities to profit from the exploitation of industrial labour began to diminish, capitalism shifted its focus to expand the range of things that could be exploited. This gave rise to a plurality of different forms for making things valuable – valuing objects in terms of their properties is only one such form. The form that plays a central role in the enrichment economy is what the authors call the ‘collection form’, which values objects based on the gap they fill in a collection. This valuation process relies on the creation of narratives which enrich commodities. This wide-ranging and highly original work makes a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary societies and of how capitalism is changing today. It will be of great value to students and scholars in sociology, political economy and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in the social and economic transformations shaping our world.Trade Review“Boltanski and Esquerre propose a grammar of things and their value that sheds new light on the transformations of contemporary capitalism. An original and powerful work which will undoubtedly stimulate much debate.” Clément Lefranc, Sciences humaines “A seminal book.” European Journal of Sociology“arresting and impressive”Journal of Classical Sociology "Expansion of industry blocked, capitalism in France—and not only there—seeks shelter in the production by select artisans and artists of 'authentic' goods for the winners of globalization. Enrichment is a brilliant and deeply disturbing study of this grim involution, by which a nation’s history and identity become its last resource, and new forms of labor market inclusion and exclusion disarm traditional criticism of exploitation. This book is a foundation stone in a sociology of dystopia for our times." Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School “Uplifting, fun, accessible to all, Enrichment is the most scholarly and relevant analysis to finally make sense of the current 'madness' of the art market. It fascinates speculators, disconcerts art lovers, and arouses public distrust. But the observation is obvious to all: in our post-industrial societies, heritage, luxury goods and even contemporary art are the only source of wealth that we have. They are now part of the main foundations of our economy." Catherine Millet, founder and editor of Art PressTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Translator’s note Preface by Charles Sabel Introduction PART I. Destruction and Creation of Wealth Chapter 1. The Age of the Enrichment Economy The deindustrialization of Western Europe Old and new sites of prosperity The omnipresence of enriched objects The rise of luxury Heritage creation The development of tourism The expansion of cultural activities The art trade Arles: from railroad shops to contemporary art exhibits An economic reorientation toward the wealthy Chapter 2. Toward Enrichment The characteristics of an enrichment economy Dormant resources in the enrichment economy Changes in French cultural policy A new perspective in economic analysis A shift to different scales From ornamental patrimony to heritage creation Local mutations in global capitalism Partisans of things Part II. Prices and Forms of Valuation Chapter 3. Commerce in Things The commodity condition On the circulation of things Changing hands The process of determination Price and metaprice Critiquing the price Value as justification for a price Price as an element in the construction of reality Chapter 4. Forms of Valuation Structure and transformation group of forms of valuation Analytic and narrative presentations of things The problem of valuation by means of images On the reproduction of things Institutions and forms of valuation Structuralism and capitalism Competition from a systematic viewpoint Capitalism and markets The role of the capacity to reflect The structure of the forms of valuation Part III. Commodity Structures Chapter 5. The Standard Form The model for the standard form The standard form and industrial production Prototypes and specimens The proliferation of things without persons The internal tensions of the standard form The unease created by the standard form Chapter 6. Standardization and Differentiation The historical dimension of the forms of valuation From trade in things to the circulation of commodities The effect of standardization on the constitution of forms of valuation Material economies, immaterial economies Chapter 7. The Collection Form The modernity of the collection form Systematic collection as an arrangement for valuation Collectors’ items Price and value of collectors’ items The fields of collectibles The structure of the collection form Chapter 8. Collection and Enrichment The usefulness of useless things Collecting in thrall to marketing On the use of the collection form by luxury firms From lumber to luxury goods: the transformation of the Pinault group into Kering Capturing the wealth of the wealthiest Values and prices of luxury product brands Standard products with a “collector effect” and collectors’ items The collection form and contemporary art The contradiction of the enrichment economy Chapter 9. The Trend Form Trend, sign, and distinction The structure of the trend form The economic constraints of the trend form From the trend form to the collection form Chapter 10. The Asset Form Characteristics of the asset form On the liquidity of things as assets The commercial potential of assets Part IV. Who Profits from the Past Chapter 11. Profit in a Commercial Society Competition and differentiation Surplus work value and profit Surplus market value and profit Displacing commodities or displacing buyers Profiting from the wealthy in the capitalist cosmos Chapter 12. The Enrichment Economy in Practice An enriched village: Laguiole in Aubrac The transformation of habitats through heritage creation New “traditional festivals” in the village Heritage creation around food A landscape to contemplate Cutlery valorized by the collection form The “artisanal” manufacture of a knife in Laguiole A collectible knife Museification as a means of commercialization The problem of the origin of materials Distinguishing Laguiole’s knives from those made elsewhere “A name, a brand, a village” How the residents lost the ability to dispose freely of the name of their village A geographic indication to “highlight the treasures of the territories” Chapter 13. The Shape of the Enrichment Society The organization of things and persons Who can profit from an enrichment economy? “Losers” and “servants” The return of “rentiers” Chapter 14. Creators in the Enrichment Society The economic condition of culture workers Self-promotion by creators The constraint of self-exploitation The circumstances behind the crystallization of social classes Troubled critiques Conclusion. Action and Structures The enrichment economy and a critique of capitalism On pragmatic structuralism Annexe Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisWe are living in a period of great uncertainty. The rise of extreme populists, economic shocks and rising international tensions is not only causing turmoil but is also a sign that many long-predicted tipping points in media and politics have now been reached. Such changes have worrying implications for democracies everywhere.This second edition of Political Communication bridges old and new to map the political and cultural shifts and analyse what they mean for our ageing democracies. With new sections and revisions to all chapters, the book continues both to introduce and challenge the established literature. It revisits key questions such as: Why are polarized electorates no longer prepared to support established political parties? Why are large parts of the legacy media either dying or dismissed as 'fake news'? And why do some democratic leaders look more like dictators? In this fully updated edition, there is greater focus on digital developments, and it is enriched with new global comparisons and useful ancillary material.Political Communication: An Introduction for Crisis Times will appeal to advanced students and scholars of political communication, as well as anyone trying to understand the precarious state of today's media and political landscape.Trade Review‘In a time characterized by numerous simultaneous crises, transformative changes and democratic backsliding, this well-written and highly insightful book can be recommended to anyone interested in contemporary political communication and the fate of democracy.’Jesper Strömbäck, University of Gothenburg‘Political Communication arrives at a time of rapid change and deepening crisis in democratic societies. It provides an engaging, magisterial and rigorous assessment of the impact of recent transformations – ranging from the rise of authoritarian populist leaders to the Covid-19 pandemic. The book is a must-read for anyone who wants to make sense of political communication in unprecedented times.’Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition and AcknowledgementsPart I: Introductory Frameworks1. Introducing Political Communication in Crisis Times2. Evaluating Democratic Politics and Communication3. Digital Media and Political CommunicationPart II: Institutional Politics and Legacy News Media4. Political Parties and Elections5. Political Reporting and the Future of (Fake) News6. Media-Source Relations, Mediatization and Populist Turn in News and PoliticsPart III: Citizens and Organised Interests Beyond the Political Centre7. Citizens, Media Effects and Public Participation8. Civil Society, Powerful Interests and the Policy Process9. Interest Groups, Social Movements and Campaigning for Equality and the Environment10. Globalisation, the State and International Political Communication11. Conclusions: Post-Truth, Post-Public Sphere and Post-DemocracyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisClare Leighton was one of the most prolific and highly regarded wood engravers of her time, leaving behind a body of work that reflected her rural life in Britain and North America. During the 1930s, as the world around her became increasingly technological, industrial, and urban, Leighton portrayed rural men and women and the ancient methods they used to work the land that would soon vanish forever. Her two best-loved publications, The Farmer’s Year and Four Hedges, reflect this passion for the British countryside. Less well known are her books illustrating and describing rural life in the United States of America, where she emigrated and became a naturalized citizen in 1945, including Southern Harvest and Where Land Meets Sea: The Tide Line of Cape Cod. Leighton also spent time in Canada with the logging community, winning the respect of Canadian lumberjacks by adopting their way of life. Her wood engravings depicting lumberjacks in the snow-covered forests of Canada are some of her most evocative prints. This lavish anthology includes beautifully reproduced extracts and a detailed introduction to the artist’s life and work, reflecting Leighton’s lifelong fascination with the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the land.Trade ReviewA stunning tribute to a British-American artist who should be better known. * The Bay Magazine *'Here are her messages for our times, fresh as a boxwood shaving: "if I am defiant in my defence of the countryside, it is because I know it is the last hope for sanity…the strong, sane humour of the earth, without which there is no health. At no time has this been more needed, and at no time have we been at greater risk of losing it."' * Caught by the River *This beautiful book...will not only introduce a unique artist to a new audience, but serves to remind us of a bucolic world now lost. * The Lady *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Introduction 1 1 The Farmer’s Year 15 2 Four Hedges 41 3 Canadian Lumber Camp 93 4 The Philosophy of Gardening 105 5 France & the Balkans 121 6 Traditional Skills 129 7 Country Matters 139 8 Southern Harvest 149 9 Where Land Meets Sea 155 Further Reading 173 Image Sources 177 Index 179

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Book SynopsisThe tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the classroom and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation, discovery, and application.This insightful perspective on effective social change is illustrated with how-to examples.Table of ContentsComfort; Safety; Trip Planning and Organisation; Building Mileage; Getting Competitive: Endurance Rallies; When the Pavement Ends; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first extensive study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, and how it pulled together diverse elements of a delusionary Nazi worldview. In an era when both anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories continue to influence world politics, Herf offers a timely reminder of their dangers.Trade ReviewHere, practically for the first time, we can see how Germans before and during World War II were at all times in their daily lives confronted with a carefully designed view of the world in which a mythical Jewish enemy was portrayed as threatening Germans and hence had to be killed. No prior study has shown as clearly as this one how central this theme was to German wartime propaganda in all its forms. -- Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North CarolinaJeffrey Herf has written a brilliant book that reorients our understanding of the Holocaust. Arguing that racial antisemitism, however vicious, was an insufficient basis for genocide, Herf demonstrates that a major shift occurred in Nazi propaganda during the war: Jews were now presented as a political threat to the German nation, and as the instigators, through their puppets, America, England, and the Soviet Union, of a deadly world war against Germany. -- Susannah Heschel, author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish JesusA commendable and compelling elucidation of the Nazi propaganda which accompanied the Holocaust, indispensable for both students of the Third Reich and general readers. -- Jay W. Baird, author of The Mythical World of Nazi Propaganda, 1939-1945In this impressive book, Jeffrey Herf shows that the omnipresent image of the 'international Jew' as the source of Germany's victimhood was central to the propaganda and political imagination of the Nazi leadership, which made no secret of its intention to destroy European Jewry. -- Anson Rabinbach, Princeton UniversityWith the market so saturated with books that have "Nazi" in their titles, when a path-breaking new work does appear, one that explains the "why"--not just another documentation of the "how"--there is a chance it will slip under many readers' radar. One can only hope that such a fate will not befall Jeffrey Herf's incredibly important The Jewish Enemy, one of those rare works of Holocaust history that poses the most essential question: "Why did European, especially German, antisemitism, which had never led to an effort to murder all of Europe's Jews before, do so between 1941 and 1945 in the midst of World War II? What changed to make anti-Semitism a rationale for mass murder rather than for a continuation of centuries old patterns of persecution?"...[Herf is] the legitimate intellectual heir to [George] Mosse. -- Noah Strote * Forward *Jeffrey Herf's latest book, The Jewish Enemy--dealing with Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust--sheds new light on what happened then in Europe and is a trenchant refutation of those who try to make us believe that antisemitic hate speech is merely a cynical tool employed by politicians...At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the demented discourse of radical antisemitism has resurfaced in different idioms and cultural contexts. It would be complacent to assume that variants on the narrative explored in Jeffrey Herf's brilliant work will not play a part in the future as well...This is a book that should be read widely. -- Karl Pfeifer * Searchlight *What may be the most important book on the Holocaust in a generation...In The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust, [Herf] concedes that hatred and racism were important, but he argues that they don't explain Germany's unique efforts to destroy the Jews...The real answer isn't hate, but fear. Poring through miles of speeches, private comments, journal entries, party memoranda and all 24,000 pages of Goebbel's diaries, Herf concludes that the Nazis really believed that the Jews ran the world and wanted to destroy Germany. They believed that Jews controlled not only the Bolsheviks to the east but the capitalists to the west. -- Jonah Goldberg * Los Angeles Times *Many historians who have tackled Hitler and the Third Reich have found it impossible to take the Führer's rhetoric or Nazi ideology seriously. A. J. P. Taylor was infamous for treating Hitler as an ordinary statesman in the German mould. A succession of historians, including Rainer Zitelmann, Detlev Peukert and Götz Aly, continues to insist that Nazism was a rational modernizing force. It is hard to see how this approach will withstand Jeffrey Herf's patient, incisive and ultimately devasting analysis of the Nazi world-view in The Jewish Enemy. -- David Cesarani * Times Literary Supplement *Which of the major findings of this excellent study is more disturbing: that human beings are capable of inventing and believing the kind of vicious nonsense the Nazis believed about Jews, or that such profoundly irrational beliefs can become the basis of a meticulously devised and implemented program of industrial mass murder? It is indeed the case, to say the least, that 'an examination of modern political culture draws attention to the causal significance of many irrational and illusory ideological perspectives'...The Jewish Enemy is both a revealing, carefully documented historical study and a reminder of the timeless and astonishing human capacity for demented belief, bottomless hatred, and a correspondingly stunning readiness to act upon bizarre convictions and fantasies...This study is also highly informative about the methods and character of Nazi propaganda. The author makes use of sources not widely used before, such as the ubiquitous wall newspapers (also favored in communist states), posters, and archival materials (including directives to the press about the tasks and methods of propaganda), and the diaries of Goebbels, among others. Some striking visual images of 'the Jewish enemy' used in the press and posters are reproduced (remarkably similar to both Soviet anti-capitalist, anti-American propaganda and the images purveyed in Arab anti-Israeli propaganda). -- Paul Hollander * New Criterion *Through a chronological structure that moves seamlessly from an introductory section on pre-1939 Nazi propaganda themes and structures to the shifting narratives of the wartime period, Herf shows convincingly that the attacks on the regime's wartime "enemies" (Britain; after 1941 the Soviet Union and the United States) were underpinned by the same Überbegriff of an alleged "international Jewish conspiracy."...Herf's book adds much-needed intellectual ammunition to the argument that propaganda should be taken very seriously. -- Aristotle A. Kallis * H-Net *Undoubtedly, this is a much-needed study that convincingly demonstrates the centrality of radical anti-Semitic language in the Nazi leadership's thinking and the regime's wartime propaganda. Herf has succeeded in showing how in the minds of the regime's leaders and propagandists the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews were directly and inherently connected. -- Thomas Pegelow Kaplan * Canadian Journal of History *Herf is meticulous in his scholarship, and the book's vivid detail can certainly hold up to historians' scrutiny...This is a must-read. -- Dave Roy * Curled Up with a Good Book *Herf has made excellent use of many overlooked sources...Most shockingly, he shows the remarkable extent to which the German people were informed by Hitler and his colleagues that the Third Reich was engaged in annihilating Europe's Jews. The overall effect is one of a regime in thrall to its own paranoid fantasies, with devastating consequences that are all too familiar. -- Dan Stone * Journal of Genocide Research *Jeffrey Herf, one of the most prolific and challenging historians of twentieth-century Germany, has written an important book, the first comprehensive work detailing the structure of the Third Reich’s effort to inculcate antisemitism in the German population. This was a propaganda effort, and much of Herf’s book focuses on Joseph Goebbels; but Herf also carefully delineates changes in the antisemitic content of Hitler’s speeches and gives a great deal of attention to Otto Dietrich, the Reich press chief. The result for readers is a nuanced sense of the volume and flow of antisemitic propaganda—and The Jewish Enemy leaves no doubt that antisemitism, indeed murderous antisemitism, was an ideology propagated up front and in public. For some readers, this may seem an obvious point, but a great deal of older research underscored how the Nazis placed antisemitism in the background, emphasizing instead the material gains that ordinary citizens could expect from Nazi rule. Herf shows that nothing could be further from the truth...it is Herf’s significant achievement to gather the antisemitic propaganda of the Third Reich and demonstrate its patterns. For the first time, we have a nuanced account of how state-produced antisemitism changed during the war and how this antisemitism connected to the Holocaust. -- Helmut Walser Smith * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Jews, the War, and the Holocaust 2. Building the Anti-Semitic Consensus 3. "International Jewry" and the Origins of World War II 4. At War against the Alliance of Bolshevism and Plutocracy 5. Propaganda in the Shadow of the Death Camps 6. "The Jews Are Guilty of Everything" 7. "Victory or Extermination" Conclusion Appendix: The Anti-Semitic Campaigns of the Nazi Regime, as Reflected in Lead Front-Page Stories in Der V&omul;lkische Beobachter List of Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Bibliography Bibliographical Essay Index

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Book Synopsis LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE''Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives'' Financial Times ''Superb'' Literary ReviewThe remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain todayIn March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent and die. This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. Touching almost every person in Britain today, they are one of our best-kept secrets.''If you ever wondered whether the circumstances of your early life steered you along a particular path, look no further than this book ... highly readable ... a goldmine of social history'' Eric Kaufmann, Literary Review''Hugely engaging ... the scientists are an irresistibly eccentric, passionate bunch'' Nick Curtis, Evening StandardTrade ReviewAn elegant mix of science and human drama, The Life Project was - by a considerable measure in my view - the best science book published this year -- Robin McKie, Best Science Books of 2016 * Observer *An elegant mix of science and human drama, The Life Project was - by a considerable measure in my view - the best science book published this year -- Robin McKie, Best Science Books of 2016 * Observer *Eye-opening book, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives ... Part scientific narrative and part postwar social history, along with some fantastically cut-throat academic politics ... A very British success story -- Isabel Berwick * Financial Times *Fascinating, shocking, heartening ... The greatest scientific experiment in modern British history -- Dominic Sandbrook * Daily Mail *Highly enjoyable ... Reading this book has reminded me of how much we owe to birth cohorts and their participants ... Delightful -- Kate Pickett * author of The Spirit Level *A spellbinding account of the UK's pioneering cohort studies ... [A] cogent, persuasive book -- Robin McKie * Observer *Intriguing ... [A] fine, detailed book -- Jenni Russell, 'Must Reads' * Sunday Times *Fascinating -- Alice Jones * Independent *The Life Project is in many ways a very British story ... Absorbing ... A tribute to Helen Pearson's skill as a writer -- Keith Kahn-Harris * Independent *Hugely engaging, and gives much to chew on ... the scientists are an irresistibly eccentric, passionate bunch -- Nick Curtis * Evening Standard *A highly readable, deeply informative book ... If you ever wondered whether the circumstances of your early life steered you along a particular path, look no further than this book ... [Pearson] does a superb job of bringing [the cohort studies] to life ... -- Eric Kaufmann * Literary Review *Fascinating ... A cogent exploration of Britain's groundbreaking birth-cohort studies ... The Life Project does a great service in bringing them and the people at their heart to life -- Andrew Steptoe * Nature *Pearson has done a real service in explaining how wide-ranging these extraordinary and little-known studies have been -- Michael Prodger * The Times *Persuasively argues ... the beauty and sheer vision of these longitudinal cohort studies * Telegraph *Incredible * Tech Insider *

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Book SynopsisThis is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe.Trade Review"Shot through with radiant insights." The New Statesman and Society "An excellent introduction to the range, depth, and perceptiveness of his thinking. He has the distinctive ability to bring illumination where there is darkness and obscurity." Richard J. Bernstein, New School of Social ResearchTable of ContentsPart I: Marxism and Revolutionary Theory. . 1. Marxism: A Provisional Assessment. 2. Theory and Revolutionary Project. 3. The Institution and the Imaginary: A First Approach. Part II: The Social Imaginary and the Institution. . 4. The Social-Historical. 5. The Social-Historical Institution: Legein and Tukhein. 6. The Social-Historical Institution: Individuals and Things. 7. Social Imaginary Significations. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisRejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today. This title draws on a range of research - from urban ethnography to sexology and criminal victimization studies - to illustrate its failings.Trade Review"Great teachers like Young translate between cultural forms and fields of knowledge." Kriminologisches Journal 'The terms "criminology" and "imagination" do not naturally belong together. Jock Young's singular achievement is to apply a fine "criminological imagination", exposing the soulless discourse of mainstream criminology and reflecting upon the alternative critical tradition in which he himself played such a central role.' Stan Cohen, London School of Economics and Political Science ‘If reading a clever and consequential book were a crime, you would get arrested and hauled straight to jail for picking up The Criminological Imagination. Adapting and deepening C.-Wright Mills's classic critique of the foibles of sociology, Young not only offers a razor-sharp diagnosis of how criminology lost its way in a funny-mirror house of methodological fetishism, empirical legerdemain, conceptual confusion and policy subservience. He also clears a path toward rescue and renewal: criminology can regain its analytic poise and civic relevance by embracing its sociological grounding and by reconnecting crime to formations of meaning and power. This book will energize all those who wish to free the craft from the clutches of the profession, and it is sure to fire up vigorous debate between and among partisans of mainstream and critical criminology.' Loïc Wacquant, author of Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality and Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Legacy of C. Wright Mills 1. Closing Down the Imagination 2. Measurement and the Sexologists 3. Amnesia and the Art of Skating on Thin Ice 4. The Bogus of Positivism 5. The Loosening of the Moorings: The Emergence of Cultural Criminology 6. Giuliani and the New York Miracle 7. Magic, Mayhem and Margaret Mead: Towards a Critical Ethnography 8. Subcultures as Magic: Problems of Urban Ethnography 9. Dangerous Knowledge and the Politics of the Imagination 10. Rescuing the Imagination

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Book SynopsisHow to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map.

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Book SynopsisThe miniscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine A. MacKinnon’s collected work on gender inequality—including new pieces—argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.Trade ReviewThis excellent collection of MacKinnon’s speeches and other writings covers a roughly 40-year period and shows the process of attempting to hammer law into a tool that could be used for social change to address the inequality of women. This was something of a tall order, given, as MacKinnon says, ‘The legal system that we have was not designed by women or so that women could make it work for women.’ Yet here she is, doing it, and the book provides a rare and quite intimate window on how it is done, in both theory and practice. -- Michele Dauber, Stanford Law SchoolWhat comes together here—and what is fascinating about all of MacKinnon’s work—is a deep respect for aspects of the conventional world (the law, the value of scholarship) and an equally profound fury at the way in which these aspects also uphold many of the assumptions about the world that she takes to task. In this, it could be said, she is not unlike many of us. All respect to her for trying to find a way through this maze. -- Mary Evans * Times Higher Education *MacKinnon [is] radical, passionate, incorruptible and a beautiful literary stylist…Butterfly Politics…is a devastating salvo fired in the gender wars. A fierce and lucid anthology of essays on subjects ranging from torture to pornography, this book has a single overriding aim: to effect global change in the pursuit of equality…Butterfly Politics is her call for humanity to rise to its feet. -- Antonella Gambotto-Burke * The Australian *Small actions can have highly complex and large impacts, and Catharine MacKinnon uses this concept, the ‘butterfly effect,’ to explain how critical interventions can produce radical transformation in the gender system. She exposes through 40 years of her legal battles an emerging global normative system confronting sexual inequality…MacKinnon is a 21st-century thinker, one of the few proposing global software that could run on the old national hardware. She is encouraging multidimensional political thinking, precise engagement, principled creativity, imagination, instinct and adaptability: small actions in a collective context producing systemic changes. -- Luis Moreno Ocampo * Lawfare *[MacKinnon’s] theoretical understanding of concepts of power, privilege and intellectual freedom isn’t just universal, but also prophetic in the ways it holds weight in 2018… The book offers a comprehensive understanding of MacKinnon’s legal scholarship through over four decades. Her work asks tough questions, and clearly set some theoretical precedents in our modern-day, Tumblr and ‘social justice warrior’ era understanding of sexism, power dynamics and inequality. -- Sabah Azaad * The Print *MacKinnon adapts a concept from chaos theory in which the tiny motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away. Under the right conditions, she posits, small actions can produce major social transformations. * New York Times *Sometimes ideas change the world. Catharine MacKinnon is a visionary, and this astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has come—always, but perhaps now more than ever. -- Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School, and former Administrator, White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

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Book SynopsisGeert Mak is a jounalist and historian, and one of Holland's bestselling writers; his prizewinning books include Amsterdam and In Europe.Translated by Ann Kelland.Trade ReviewEloquent * Guardian *Movingly relevant * Irish Times *Mak is good on the pulse of the village, its ebb and flow as people come and go, but running throughout the book is a genuine anger that this is a meritorious way of life we are too eager to dismiss -- Lesley McDowell * Independent of Sunday *A big subject, neatly summarized, in which he also studies the changes in people's values that take place when they move to big cities, and the role now played by incomers in village life -- Alastair Mabbott * Herald *Nowhere has the silent rural revolution been described more beautifully and with mroe feeling * Volkskrant *

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Book SynopsisThe only brief cultural anthropology text specifically designed to prepare students to read ethnographies more effectively and with greater understanding, this is a concise introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology.

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Book SynopsisIn this study of the cognitive paradigm, De Mey applies the study of computer models of human perception to the philosophy and sociology of science.

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Book SynopsisBrings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the items in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people get into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands.Trade Review"Doniger seduces the reader with her casual erudition, tempering the dizzying accumulation of evidence with wry asides." - Edward Rothstein, New York Times "A triumph.... The numerous glittering parts of The Bedtrick are ultimately held together by the unanswerable, endlessly fascinating questions to which it keeps returning." - Katharine Eisaman Maus, Times Literary Supplement"

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Book SynopsisSpanning Gagnon's work from the 1970s and extending through to the 1990s, these essays constitute an essential work on the study of sexuality in the twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisSociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality of its recruits, the cooptation of its clients, a muted public voice, and sinking prestige in governmental circlesthese are only a few of the trends signalling a need for renewed debate about how sociology is organized. In this volume, some of the most authoritative voices in the field confront these conditions, offering a variety of perspectives as they challenge sociologists to self-examination.

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Book SynopsisFar from simply vanishing in the face of modernity, Orthodox Jews in the United States today are surviving and flourishing. Samuel C. Heilman and Steven M. Cohen, both distinguished scholars of Jewish studies, have joined forces in this pathbreaking book to articulate this vibrancy and to characterize the many faces of Orthodox Jewry in contemporary America. Who are these Orthodox Jews? How have they survived, what do they believe and practice and how do they accommodate the tension between traditional Jewish and modern American values? Drawing on a survey of more than one thousand participants, the authors address these questions and many more. Heilman and Cohen reveal that American Jewish Orthodoxy is not a monolith by distinguishing its three broad varieties: the traditionalists, the centrists, and the nominally orthodox. To illuminate this full spectrum of orthodoxy the authors focus on the centrists, taking us through the dimensions of their ritual observances, religious beliefs, community life, and their social, political, and sexual attitudes. Both parochial and cosmopolitan, orthodox and liberal, these Jews are characterized by their dualism, by their successful involvement in both the modern Western world and in traditional Jewish culture. In painting this provocative and fascinating portrait of what Jewish Orthodoxy has become in America today, Heilman and Cohen's study also sheds light on the larger picture of the persistence of religion in the modern world.

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Book SynopsisThe Last Half-Century represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship by Morris Janowitz. In this comprehensive and systematic analysis of the major trends in American society during the past fifty years, he probes the weakening of popular party affiliations and the increased inability of elected representatives to rule. Centering his work on the crucial concept of social control, Janowitz orders and assesses a vast amount of empirical research to clarify the failure of basic social institutions to resolve our chronic conflicts. For Janowitz, social control denotes a society's capacity to regulate itself within a moral framework that transcends simple self-interest. He poses urgent questions: Why has social control been so drastically weakened in our advanced industrial society? And what strategies can we use to strengthen it again? The expanation rests in part on the changes in social structure which make it more and more complicated for citizens to calculate their political s

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Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphasized different features of modern society, they repeatedly invoked Jews as a touchstone for defining modernity and national identity in a context of rapid social change. In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg brings us a major new study of Western social thought through the lens of Jews and Judaism. In France, where antisemites decried the French Revolution as the Jewish Revolution, Emile Durkheim challenged depictions of Jews as agents of revolutionary subversion or counterrevolutionary reaction. When German thinkers such as Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber debated the relationship of the Jews to modern industrial capitalism, they reproduced, in secularized form, cultural assumptions d

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Book SynopsisIn this study David S. Luft has recovered the work of three writers from Vienna who, in addition to Freud, were radically reconceiving sexuality and gender.

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